Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 23, 2025
Balthasar listened with rapture to the star. He felt himself becoming a new man. Prostrate beside him, Sembobitis and Menkera worshipped, their faces touching the stone. Queen Balkis watched Balthasar. She realised that never again would there be love for her in that heart filled with a love divine. She turned white with rage and gave orders for the caravan to return at once to the land of Sheba.
And the more Balthasar studied the twelve houses of the sun, the less he thought of Balkis, and Menkera, observing this, was filled with a great joy. "Acknowledge, my lord, that Queen Balkis under her golden robes has little cloven feet like a goat's." "Who ever told you such nonsense?" asked the King. "My lord, it is the common report both in Sheba and Ethiopia," replied the eunuch.
With his arms outstretched towards her, Balthasar cried: "Give me but the little feather that has fallen on your neck and in return you shall have half my kingdom as well as the wise Sembobitis and Menkera the eunuch." But she rose and fled with a ripple of dear laughter. When the mage and the eunuch returned they found their master plunged deep in thought which was not his custom.
For three weeks he remained unconscious and as one dead, but having on the twenty-second day recovered his senses, he seized the hand of Sembobitis, who, with Menkera, watched over him, and cried, weeping: "O, my friends, how happy you are, one to be old and the other the same as old. But no! there is no happiness on earth, everything is bad, for love is an evil and Balkis is wicked."
Smiling, she stood before them in a jewelled robe. At sight of her Balthasar was greatly troubled. She seemed to him lovelier than a dream and more beautiful than desire. "My lord," and Sembobitis spoke under his breath, "remember to conclude a good commercial treaty with the queen." "Have a care, my lord," Menkera added. "It is said she employs magic with which to gain the love of men."
In those days Balthasar, whom the Greeks called Saracin, reigned in Ethiopia. He was black, but comely of countenance. He had a simple soul and a generous heart The third year of his reign, which was the twenty-second of his age, he left his dominions on a visit to Balkis, Queen of Sheba. The mage Sembobitis and the eunuch Menkera accompanied him.
Their empty sarcophagi are perhaps tokens, that the judges of the dead found them unworthy of rest in the grave, unworthy of the resurrection, whereas the builder of the third and most beautiful pyramid, Menkera, who contented himself with a smaller monument, and reopened the gates of the temples, was allowed to rest in peace in his coffin of blue basalt.
Their empty sarcophagi are perhaps tokens, that the judges of the dead found them unworthy of rest in the grave, unworthy of the resurrection, whereas the builder of the third and most beautiful pyramid, Menkera, who contented himself with a smaller monument, and reopened the gates of the temples, was allowed to rest in peace in his coffin of blue basalt.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking